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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2013
      25 July 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511997808
      9781107012059
      9781108456531
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511997808
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 444 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Studies (General), Religion
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Studies (General), Religion
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.

    Reviews

    'An important book … an essential point of reference for anyone reflecting on what it meant to be 'Greek' in the ancient world.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    '… [this] book is of great importance in both its method and its content for the study of Roman Syria and the surrounding region from the Seleucid period through the early Roman Empire. Scholars will benefit a great deal from Andrade’s impressive contribution to, and reshaping of, these ongoing discussions.'

    Christine Shepardson Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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